meets your crashes in central russia causing panic damage and leaving over twelve hundred injured. first scenes of violence in bahrain where stone throwing protesters are hit with tear gas and stun grenades in clashes which threaten the terms to ease two years of anti regime on rest in the gulf kingdom. and president obama secures washington's expanding it counterterrorism efforts in the middle east as he lays out america's global priority plan and his state of the union address.

they are watching our weekly news review with me kerry johnston well the world was why died this week over dramatic images from central russia plunging your exploded with a blinding flash before crashing in the urals early on friday was hard to imagine the shock felt by the region's residents as they saw this huge fireball coming overhead it must have been absolutely terrifying when in fact it took a while for people to realize exactly what was happening to me set off as we can see a powerful shockwave smashing buildings creating havoc and of course but we'll bring inside well to take a closer look now and exactly what happened. it was like a scene from a movie but with one exception it was real first the brilliant flash was big

bright like he was shining across the sky you know blinding brighter than the sun the skies were lit up by a meteor streaking across the skies above the russian city of over one and a half thousand kilometers east of moscow where not just any usual glare on the floor i thought it was lines from a car then we ran to the window and saw this strange cloud and then and then this. would turn around and the wall was gone like someone had moved it the series of massive explosions rocked the entire city damaging buildings and shattering windows . nasa said the explosive force of the media or breaking up was the equivalent of twenty here oshima bombs over twelve hundred people were injured including over two hundred children mostly from pieces of shattered glass. the windows just exploded

i saw one girl he had and a growing his hand we were told to quickly put our clothes on and run out so many were able to film the owner of the phenomenon later flooding the web with footage as rumors spread of what it. airplane a satellite that fell out of orbit even the beginning and of the world would mrs reported seeing fragments of the crashing all across the region. i saw a small can there was a weird smell but it was not a fire so i think it's a piece of meteorite and a small during there now however most of the sightings turn out to be ordinary fires because so far officials have not found any fragments of the media or for now the immediate priority is to look after the injured and repair the damage to buildings especially the broken windows in schools and residential areas as sam bridger's a married drop below minus fifteen celsius is going to take time to clear everything

out but for now science like this collapsed factory or a clear reminder no matter how advanced technology gets nowadays often when it comes to nature we can only watch helplessly and hope for the best. they were reporting then of course all of this drama fired up all sorts of action online on the internet where people were going crazy with blogging and videos and of course the joins us now from the newsroom turns a little bit more about that what was going on well all sorts of stuff can be found online pertaining to the media of course right now from the merely factual to the outrageous and ridiculous like president putin harnessing the power of the media or to write a terrorist i'm checking up on the latest we've got on this i'll be with you in the studio in just a few minutes ok lindsay thanks very much for that. in the meantime the startling aspect of this is that no one seemed to see it coming. spain's more

a little bit about that side of the story. you may wonder why the scientists haven't seen this thing coming after all it was quite a doozy was really large as a matter of fact buzz at the same time the scientists are saying that there is way too many things flying out there in outer space and although this one was a big one they can't really keep track of everything that's coming but seriously this thing waited more than ten thousand tons when it was approaching earth or so the scientists say of course when it entered the atmosphere it mindblowing the speed of thirty kilometers per second that's really really fast when it entered the atmosphere it broke into several pieces and those went scattering all over the region this is the region that we're actually concerned with but it actually when all around the place we're only going with what the scientists and the emergency ministries are saying and they're saying that this icy pits is not anything for is not something for ice fishing as a matter of fact this is a crater where the fragment one of the fragments has fallen but again they haven't

found any fragments of the meteor there so i guess we only have to take their word for it course we have to understand that this actually has been the biggest thing to hit this planet in over a century or so this scientists believe the last time something like this happened was in one thousand nine hundred eighty two when the crash landed somewhere in siberia destroying thousands of square kilometers of forest causing acid rains to fall causing me to asians and plants and forests but it's also one of the biggest mysteries in the universe because nobody has ever found a crater from the meteor or no no fragments of the meteor have been found so this is kind of a big mystery that a lot of people are trying to cash in on this even even today one hundred years later but back to reality back to present day region of course there has been plenty of damage you have seen the pictures of the damage plants and buildings but

actually. a lot of people are saying it could have been a lot worse if history is any indication there are telescopes and networks operated by nasa the us that was cosmos and russia the european space agency others that are out there trying to detect its record afterwards but honestly there's a lot of there's hundreds of thousands and their biggest focus is on the really large ones ones that are hundreds of meters in diameter oaklawn that isn't going to matter that could potentially you know do to us what happened to the dinosaurs and another thing to have been scraped in is actually something of a nuclear hotspot in russia in fact during the soviet era this was the place for nuclear research so it has at least seven nuclear facilities that are located in the region and a lot of people are saying that if at least one of them was hit with one of the fragments from an asteroid we would have been dealing with complications infinitely

worse than we're having on our hands right now we would be dealing with a nuclear disaster but thankfully that did not happen and although this entire event was rather frightening and quite damaging still things could have been a lot worse and it's a good thing that everything turned out the way it did. indeed it is going to school there well it's incredible of course this went viral online as soon as it happened and with many people trying to cash in on this event some people were trying to sell online fragments of meteoroids that's what they said it was. just a lump of rock from someone's garden who can say all this stuff was happening on the web and in fact lindsey france joins us now in the studio to us a little bit of what was happening online tell us about it was going bonkers as yes absolutely in fact for the last couple of days it's really funny what people are willing to have other people believe when something like this happens we've got what some tweets here tanks are passed on the street citizens are urged to go down

to the shelters lunchbox box handouts are being rather say you know towards the end of that you know obviously that's a joke we're being given chemical protection and gas masks the city is almost entirely evacuated we're setting up barricades and invasion is looming as if you were tweeting in the middle of that happening but you know really it's got a little bit of time on his hand and then you go to you know the nearly funny stuff like the citizens of chelyabinsk are already checking to see what superpowers they may have. you never know you know and of course with all of the nuclear nuclear facilities in that area there's at least seven there are testing for radiation you never know and we've got that it's negative seventy degrees celsius in chelyabinsk there's wind and a slight meteor shower just a small one and then who is that pertaining to valentine's day that had just happened who is that you know what who promised to pick a star from the sky on valentine's day because clearly they're dealing with the

aftermath of that right now and of course right on the heels of that we've got a lot of russian people who are tweeting about that goods photo shop is just going gangbusters stop calling me says are as well as we're going to get here you know russians are huge fans. of bruce willis anything anything he does here and then you've got dinosaurs also insisting that something like this isn't what i when we had to be with their yeah that's got to be very nice people blaming chuck norris for kicking it over it was aimed at us and then of course the president presents himself harnessing the power of the mighty rocket i use a man of the outdoors in the way we've always he's always in the press you know riding horses doing his thing out out in nature so those are just some very simple and funny thing right people in russia have they found a very good sense of humor you're going to magination that is right i can tell you as well that she was a football fan and they were predicted this apparently this was before it actually happened and that's between then the liverpool and important match that was but

course he actually said it was in the win against liverpool then the red snow will fool or a meteor will strike the earth and you know what they both happened they baby the pool and alito didn't strike me what i want to know is once a red snow arriving we need to call this guy get him on the show and find out what occurred so it's coming but you never know it's a hole in the news cycle tomorrow so we'll check in the front thanks for that and of course if you missed any of this dramatic footage any of the events regarding be a meter you can of course go online to r.t. dot com just a click away. and

moving on now to some other news. the volatile situation in bahrain has been exacerbated by the natives clashes between anti-government protesters and security forces this weekend scores were reportedly injured when riot police used tear gas and stun grenades against demonstrators throwing stones and petrol bombs violence broke out when the protesters tried to make their way to the funeral of a teenager who was allegedly killed by security forces earlier this week during a rally marking two years of the anti government uprising. that instant on the turmoil which followed has jeopardized talks between a sunni dominated government and mostly shiite opposition which are now stalled and that to say there are no signs of either progress or pending reforms. we're looking at two years in which we've seen no reform we've seen nothing change i mean we started this uprising two years ago and on that day the first martyr of the

uprising was killed and now two years later on the same day. another teenager has been killed and this really shows and displayed the lack of for continuous human rights abuses the continuous repression taking place on the streets about her and it's good that dialogue has come back on the agenda and there is discussions happening but it seems that you know this latest latest escalation of the security against the people is going to possibly put dine in jeopardy within the ruling family i think of course there are those who simply want to please the international community to say look we're having this dialogue and there is not a great thing what's continuing the violations on the street. libya is also marking the second anniversary of it so antigovernment uprising but in security forces on high alert well into this hour we take a look at what else to do market on his own no radical change for the better to the . us the people that could or are choosing the next.

expected to stay off the break we explain why the result. of the some. of the. technology innovation all the rest of elements from around russia we've. covered. a story and it seems so you think you understand it and then. you hear or see some other part of it and realized everything is. welcome to the big picture.

is he. to. talk about here without. borders closed international flights suspended un security forces on high alert that's how libya is marking two years since the beginning of the uprising that resulted in a bloody civil conflict foreign intervention and the toppling of a longtime need. explains why. the shadowed by desperation of the current government and fears of more unrest.

from all going off he has lost legitimacy to lead and he must leave the shoot at their feet is impossible to imagine a future for libya with get daffy still in power he must. well gadhafi is long gone and we don't need to imagine but can take a close look the revolt which began in benghazi was followed by an eight month nato bombing campaign costing thousands of lives and left libya torn apart drowning in conflict and suffocating in stagnation still rich in oil libya economically is a mess despite rampant unemployment and an overwhelming housing crisis huge construction projects are on hold and violence reigns if you look at the country before the bombardment and the invasion by nato and nato supported militias.

the country now you can clearly see that the country is suffering from the front problems the not exist before the country's infrastructure has been destroyed you have militias running. free on the streets attacking people killing people and doing whatever they want so yes a lot has changed but not for the better amnesty international describes tribalism post gadhafi as armed militias acting completely out of control hundreds of them across the country arresting people without warrant detaining them incommunicado and torturing them all these points gadhafi was accused of by the rebels and the west now the watchdog says this is happening while the government is unwilling or unable to rein the militias in another problem is the south in december libya closed off its borders without niger chad and sudan citing

a deterioration of security and declared the region a military zone well recently a video has emerged of representatives of the south libyan tribes declaring independence for the region the federation of south libya they claim the government has failed to secure the inside of the country and borders and this is a result of stalled economic activity and discontinue a. and of essential infrastructure projects that have been driven by international partners well it's still not clear how that news is being taken in tripoli but it cambodia well for any chance of stability and finally who is reaping the fruits of this revolution well some analysts say it's an economic powerhouse putting lots of money into the region that the west just doesn't have while at the same time benefiting from their military efforts it's china the chinese have no boots on the ground they have no army use their. military.

the west country so two years after the revolution for libya the only certainty is still gadhafi is gone you can check out our web site for more analysis of the consequences often they talk about regime change in libya and much more. but during his state of the union speech president obama said america needs to boost its help for the libya and its neighbors to bring security to the rest of region and defending his counterterrorism framework he talked about the fate of arab spring countries and to end america's afghanistan military mission by the end of next year from artie's going to check out in washington in his state of the union speech president obama outlined some of the external threats that the country speccing first of all pear spreading to different parts of the world for what he said although the u.s. is pulling troops out of afghanistan america's war on terror will continue to listen it's true different al qaeda affiliates and extremist groups have emerged

from the reagan peninsula to africa the threat these groups pose is evolving. but to meet this threat we don't need to send tens of thousands of our sons and daughters abroad occupy other nations we will continue to take direct action against those terrorists who pose the greatest threat to america although there was no mentioning of the word drones everyone knew that's what the president meant when saying direct action with no u.s. troops involved what he did not talk about was the limits for this war they didn't inspiration is waging with a remote control the justification that the administration gave in john brennan's words. don't punish people for past guilt strike before they take action that offers a very broad scope for the use of drones to afghanistan president obama wants to leave some troops on the ground past twenty four thousand when they're supposed to be all out in the speech you mentioned ongoing negotiations with the afghan government on that issue and it's going to be

a hard bargain because the afghan government further spearing anger of their own population over foreign military presence one could sense a change maybe even their concern as the president on the results of the revolution in the arab world he said it's quote unquote messy he said the u.s. cannot dictate the course of changing countries like very cautiously very briefly touched on syria there was a change of. remember how the u.s. was cheerleading for revolutions in those countries just a year ago with radical forces gaining momentum in places like syria like libya maybe the changes that we've now in the region are not much to their liking among other threats america faces the president talked about cyber attacks he said he had issued an executive order to protect government agencies and key infrastructure from cyber attacks but he did not mention is how the u.s. government itself is carrying out cyber attacks like the reported cyber attack on

iran's nuclear program while there's no proof that they're building in this administration said it would view a serious cyber attack a. yes the united states is an act of war but apparently when the u.s. carries out the attack it should not be seen as an act of war. i could dorian's heading to the polls in a presidential election an incumbent career hoping to keep his job one man who's the most probably rooting for him is the world's most famous whistleblower julian the son who still holed up in the ecuadorian embassy in london granted him asylum that. befalls as voters have to pools in ecuador president rafael correa looks set to win a third term in office according to the latest pools the left wing economist the heart of the seven other presidential candidates with approximately sixty percent of people backing the incumbent one person who is especially interested in the outcome of sunday's elections he's the founder of wiki leaks whose fate in some way

depends on the results last year after there was in brawl in the center of an international dispute that allow the whistleblower to take refuge in its embassy in london where he had fled toward being sent to sweden for question over accusations of sexual assault fearing that upon his execution to sweden he could then immediately be sent to the united states where he says he may please the death penalty. political asylum from ecuador earlier in two thousand and twelve korea featured t.v. show the world tomorrow r.t. in the interview that emerged that the two men had something in common both assad and korea had on washington as. it is really a pleasure to meet you julian least in this way and welcome to the club of the persecuted. thank you. although. there are still remains at the embassy as the u.k. refused to leave the country. and that is why of. one of ruffo

korea's strongest supporters he's in australia a whistleblower seething with. some more of today's international news for you now a series of car bomb blasts in baghdad have killed at least twenty eight people there more than one hundred more injured explosions occurred in may in the. iraqi capital. markets no group has yet admitted the attacks. brought the number of deaths in. two hundred fifty since the start of the year. they also have clashed with demonstrators protesting against the independence of kosovo officers use battles against crowds and for back by throwing flares at police events started as a march to this carrying banners saying as serbia was that it was popularized by the serbian government of the self declared republic proclaimed sovereignty two

thousand and eight. north korea is reportedly preparing for more atomic tests despite the widespread international fury after it detonated a third nuclear device on tuesday. described it as an effort to shore up its national security to safeguard its sovereignty against what it called for a just u.s. has to take protests to prompted warnings from washington that its sad eyes are more sanctions looming for the communist state asia based attendant news editor james corbett says the timing of the latest one could have been worse. i really think we fall into a lot of diplomatic pressure on china to use its leverage with north korea in this and i imagine that officials in beijing must have known that this this was coming probably in the next few days and it certainly is it couldn't have happened at a worse time internationally speaking it's the lunar new year in china so basically the entire country is on holiday and in the u.s. you there is no confirmed secretary of defense or central intelligence director so

it's a very interesting time to throw that through into that the wild card of xi jinping we don't know much about him or how he's going to lead china and the fact that kim jong un is a relatively new leader as well you also have the new army government in japan and there's a lot of wildcards in this mix to see how this is going to shake out but i think on the question of china specifically if they have a lot of pressure that they can put on north korea. well a couple of minutes a look at some of them a kid evidence of european democracy stay with us here on. some countries want oil but that's kid stuff who needs oil when you could secure the world's largest supply of trucker dero so-to located exclusively in sweden and

waiting sweden for absolutely no logical reason is a possible you say well supreme commander of the swedish armed forces general sphere guru and son must have watched red dawn too many times because he thinks the russians are a common general durance and declared that if invaded by russia sweden wouldn't be able to last a week against the onslaught therefore sweden must immediately join nato he said that currently it is not quite possible to invade sweden but due to the two thousand and eight war with georgia it is possible for russia to somehow push through established european borders bring their forces up to sweden's gates putting the generals country in danger but guess what according to your own council of the european union georgia started the war so by that logic if the two thousand and one with georgia is the example of the future then don't kill russian peacekeeping troops and you'll have nothing to worry about but general goran so also made the point that president putin is rearming the russian army hinting at.